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Frances Perkins — Part 7
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& nursery room radiator from which the air valve, which had
_ been held in-place’ by 8 piece of adhesive tape, was blow
- ~ When ‘steam was raised, @ further advised that the Grand Jury |
|. had gone. into the matter very thoroughly without ficin “¥es-. ><
“ ponsibility on one
EF MURRAY er stated that several days after the ~
© had received a letter from somewhere in Northern”: -
New Jersey, he could not recall the location but. thought it was
above Newark, in which the individual, who signed and dated the =
letter, wrote along the lines that it-was "too dam bad that “>.
qualified stationary engineers were out of work and handymen did °°.
_ work on valves and radiators." This letter, he stated, had enclosed —-.
_.with it a clipping on the hospital incident from a Perth Amboy news= | © :
paper, but was thrown in the wastebasket alo oS
. letters from sympathizers end criticizers. He added that the letter =. ¥
' might have been from Cliffside ‘or Bloomfield, was about four pages
long, in handwriting just above medium size, and contained an offer
to come to Perth Amboy to help out es a qualified Stationagry engineer, ~-
_ The Perth Amboy P, D. file on this tragedy was made availe ~
able to the writer, who noted that it contained reports of the police. -
officers as well as statements from all persons who the police and .:.
- hospital board felt had anything to do with the incident; there were =o"
pictures of the nursery room and radiator valve, together with news~
paper clippings commenting on the incident. Acoording to one clip- |- °°.
ping, the County Prosecutor ‘stated that the incident was caused by
“worn threads on the air valve, which emeone attempted to keep in
piace with adhesive tape, — a
~ "postmarked ae
iS Btatements of the other three ‘employees disclosed that’ |
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